The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
Notes and Opinions.


upon the crack baseball players.
THE ichthyologists of the Burlington
Clipper and Swanton Courier are giving
learned and perspicuous expositions of
the fish question.
CONGRESSMAN CALDWELL (demo-
craft of Tennessee says if the demo-
cratic party expects to win in 1888 it
must take a presidential candidate from
the West.
JUST so long as pitcher of base
ball club gets $4,000 year and
preacher a scant 5000 just so long will
there be good pitching and poor preach
ing. Western Plo,omon.
A NEW YORKER says of the George
and McGlynn anti-poverty society:
George is leading McGlynn around
like man with bear, and they call
the performance a crusade"
THAT Blaine and Cleveland will be
renominated is put down as among the
certainties by the New York Freeman,
the most able and influential organ of
the colored race in America.
THESE are the days when a little care
for health is in season. No one can
carry on the same amount of work and
play in the beginning of the warm
weather that was possible in cooler
days.-Boston advertiser.
EARTHQUAKES are the most con-
vivial of catastrophes. They are roam
ing over the country just now, investi-
eating our American institutions, and
they greet every one with the gentle
manly question, Shake?"-NeaC York
Herald.
THE two young and titled ladies of
Munich who went into decline after
the death of the crazy King Louis, and
Thursday went to the same spot and
drowned themselves, committed the
most superhuous suicide on record
Ne,0 York Telegram.
In the Forum for May Judge Ed
mund H. Bennett briefly summarizes
the marriage laws of many states, and
argues that one of the surest ways to
lessen the number of divorces is to put
more safeguards around the entrance
to the marital relation.
ABOUT the time that the tory govern
ment gets its bills for the government
of Ireland through there won't be
anybody there to govern. The process
of depopulation goes rapidly on, and
pretty soon the landlords will have the
whole country to themselves.
"THE editor of the Burlington Free
Press intimates that he will promptly
visit any dime museum that will ex.
hibit baseball umpire who has sur
vived three seasons. "-Tribune. Imag-
inc Mr. Benedict visiting a dime mu-
scum, and for such purpose!
In commenting on John Bright's
statement that "the protectionists in
the United States are burdened with a
large surplus revenue" the London
Globe eXclaims: " We wish the free
traders on this side of the pond could
point to the same oppressive state of
things"
If the mugwumps of New York are
so certain of beating Blaine if he runs
again for the presidency why do they,
without cessation and with incessant
irritation, oppose his nomination, and
seek to arouse and instruct republicans
in opposition to it?-Cincinndi COM
mercial Gazette.
THE silly season" has certainly be-
gan in earnest when we find an " intel.
ligent correspondent " of democratic
journal predicting that Cleveland will
next year on account of g his mar
riage " and 5000 from the prohibition
vote. Could anything be any more
absurd?
CREMATION is spreading in the Ole
World more rapidly than cholera, and
there are indications that it will
down the CHASTITY old demon yet. Il
is admitted that the Emperor of Brazi
did great work in arresting the ad
vance of yellow fever by ordering tn c
cremation of every one dying of thai
disease.
ANY person who has the advantage
of glancing through large exchange
list cannot fail to discover one fac
from the democratic and semi-demo
cratic papers, and that is that the
democrats are MORALLY afraid that the
republicans will next year nominate
Mr.. Blaine as their candidate fol
president Washington National Re
publican.
THE fact cannot be successfully de
MED that this generation of men ant
women are more healthy and vigorous
than was the case with people twenty
thirty and forty years ago. But one
cause of this favorable change is NJ
doubt due to the growing tendency tt
take more open-air recreation thar
characterized the American people {
few years ago.-TOledo Blade.
THE Kansas City Journal says tina
"no obscure compromise will do fol
the republican candidate for president.